Cherry Blossoms in the Tohoku region of Japan (near Sendai). Sakura Matsuri - Cherry Blossom Festivals, Hanami - picnic under the Cherry Blossoms, and traditional food eaten during Cherry Blossom season.
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Individual words are at: genkienglish.net Have a tour around a Japanese festival and learn a few of the nice foods you'll find.
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therovingroninreport.blogspot.com At first glance, Yokote's Bondon Matsuri in Northern Japan may seem rather innocuous. Tall decorative pools are paraded through the streets where later they are taken up a mountain and offered to a Shrine for the sake of a good harvest. However, if one probes a little deeper they will discover that the 4-meter tall Bonden poles are suppose to represent the penis and only men can participate in carrying it up the mountain. When the Bondon poles are brought to the shrine on the mountain, the whole phallic symbolism becomes very clear. Men lower their Bonden poles to a horizontal position before vigorously "entering" through the Torii gate and later the main shrine building. Other particpants form a defensive league to protect the shrine's virtue and when the Bonden carriers try to ram their poles through the opening, the defenders push back. Eventually the shrine's defenses are beaten and it gradually submits. Sometimes the poles bend and break which made me wince just watching. I think I mispronounced the name of the festival about half-a-dozen times thru-out the vid! The Bonden Matsuri takes place Feb 16th-17th with the 17th being the day of innuendo activity.
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Improved quality version now uploaded: www.youtube.com February 2006 For most of the year, Kounoniya is a peaceful place. But in winter, religious ritual joins with drunken delirium to create one of Japan's most extraordinary sights -- the Nude Festival. In temperatures close to zero, a designated 'Spirit Man' is stripped and beaten by the crowd. The ritual, which dates back over a thousand years, is meant to absorb the city's punishment and brings good luck. As one participant admits: "It's more important than my wife." Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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A overview of festivals you might see during your duty in Japan.
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The Sanno Matsuri of Hie Shrine in Akasaka, Tokyo is one of the three big festivals of Tokyo. It's held every other year on even years. It used to be very large during the Edo Period (1603-1867) and even the Shogun would attend. The festival parade starts out at 8 in the morning and walks around central Tokyo until coming to Hie Shrine around 5 in the evening. I went to it last year.This video is part of my effort to get the tons of unedited footage I have uploaded.
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A tutorial of how to make a Japanese Festival Lantern. It's pretty usefull for photography or decoration purposes. I would prefer not to keep it hanging at the bulb for too long as it could be dangerous. But oh well, I think it's superb for photography as I'm a photographer myself :3 and it's also cool for videos or any kind of scene settings. So there you go, enjoy the enchanting lantern, absolutely easy to make :] It's called bonbori in Japanese, as far as I've heard... I DO NOT OWN THE SONG!!!! PLEASE! I WROTE THE NAME OF THE OWNER OF THIS SONG!! I DON'T INTEND TO HARM ANY COPYRIGHTS!!! -___-
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therovingroninreport.blogspot.com Nebuta Matsuri is one the three biggest festivals in Tohoku, the northern region of Japan. In Aomori City they built giant floats of bamboo and washi (harden Japanese paper) which depicts scenes of Japanese and Chinese history and legends. It's one of my favorite festivals and this was my fourth time to see it. This was the last day of my five-day festival journey through Aomori Prefecture last summer. I had to split early unfortunately to catch a night bus - which I missed and ended up sleeping on a bench and taking the shinkansen back.
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FREE Get Fluent @ GenkiJapan.net It's Summer time! So that means fireworks and festivals in Japan. I just popped down to show you some of the atmosphere and also the Japanese summer kimono yukata. Hope you like it and stay tuned for the fireworks videos!
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Taiyaki is a delicious waffle-like treat shaped like a fish with fillings like custard, chocolate, sweet bean paste, cheese, etc. If you are ever at a Japanese festival you should try one of these!
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Creative Commons License Derivative Work: I made it better for my students by adding subtitles, taking out the long intro, and shortening the video a bit.
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Shrine festivals attract crowds. Mikoshi is carried in to the sea. Bon odori summer festival. Camera: Michael Rogge
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Clips from the Hakata Dontaku and Hiroshima Flower Festivals 2007
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Check out the related Video Response from my gimmeaflakeman channel. Comment & Rate!! OR I will become impotent...This video needs a minute to get off...the ground! This also called HOUNEN MATSURI and takes place at Tagata Jinja which is near Komaki City...about 30 minutes north of Nagoya where I live. I went to the Tagata Jinja (shrine) Fertility Festival, aka THE PENIS FESTIVAL on March 15, 2008. Met Daichan and RoninDave... www.yamasa.org For on this google: "tagata shrine hounen festival" Also see these 3 users. www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Thousands flocked to a small shrine here Sunday to take part in the Kanamara Festival, an event with roots dating back centuries and known for its huge consecrated phallus portable shrine carried mostly by transvestites.
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THIS IS JAPANESE FESTIVAL CALLED " YOSAKOI" IN KOCHI JAPAN. THIS BAND IS "CANAVAL". DJ : HEMO+MOOFIRE
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February 15th-16th, the people of Yokote in Akita Prefecture in Northern Japan build two-meter tall snow huts known as Kamakura. Inside they have a small grill for keeping warm and for cooking mochi, chewy rice cake, and for heating up amezaki a type of sweet sake with almost no alcohol. Also inside is a small altar dedicated to Suijin-sama the god of water. In ages past, Yokote had a drinking water shortage so the festival was created to get Suijin-sama's attention.
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